Hopes leap for Scottish salmon river

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A salmon river in the Scottish Highlands that became virtually bare of the fish in the last century opens for the new season today amid hopes that it will become a model for reviving depleted rivers throughout Britain. A record 262 salmon were taken by rod last year from the Carron, near Lochcarron, six years after the annual catch plummeted to an all-time low of six salmon and one sea trout.

The river has been the subject of a £100,000 restocking programme, led by the Kishorn-based Seafield Centre, the aquacultural research arm of Inverness College.